Weekend Edition: 1-4

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

This is what it’s like to be at war with your body (“This time he settled for dry ice, one of the preferred methods of self-amputation …. The idea is to freeze the offending limb and damage it to the point that doctors have no choice but to amputate.”)

The organization obtaining a stay of contraceptive coverage under the new health insurance regulations was an order of Catholic nuns. Putting aside that the organization is exempt from the rule, I would not think the existence of such coverage would lead nuns to use it.